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‘No excuse to beat up footballer’
BEATING up a professional footballer is “unacceptable,” the head of Cyprus’ Footballers Association said yesterday, responding to allegations that a first-division player was threatened at gunpoint to waive the wages he was owed.Olympiacos Nicosia Venezuelan midfielder Cesar Castro, 28, reported to police last Friday that two “buffed up men” allegedly beat him up in his home and threatened him with a gun in an attempt to force him into signing a piece of paper bearing the team’s emblem.“They had an additional page from his previous contract bearing his signature so they could verify it was the right one,” the head of the footballers association, Spyros Neofytides said... 1 comment
